The Goldfinch
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4.1 • 1.2K Ratings
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Publisher Description
A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Donna Tartt’s third novel is unapologetically “serious” fiction—it won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize—but it moves with the kinetic energy and unexpected twists of a great crime thriller. After a terrorist explosion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art upends 13-year-old Theo Decker’s life, he descends into a criminal underground of art forgers and small-time gangsters while hiding a treasured Dutch painting. Actor David Pittu leads us through Theo’s bumpy ride from Manhattan to Las Vegas to Amsterdam with emotional depth and charisma. His narration makes Tartt’s tableau of shadowy thugs and rebellious teens feel shockingly real.
Customer Reviews
Unsurpassed narrator telling Tartt’s saga
Brilliant sweeping novel of human limitation and sublime art’s and love’s infinity, masterly narration in audiobook.
Super great!
Just awesome.
3.5 out of 5
My Rating:
3.5 out of 5
Too long. Some parts were interesting, but too many times the Author droned on and on spinning an unreasonable and hard to believe tale about a boy’s tragic loss of his parents and how he was affected as he grew to a young adult. I was totally tuned out during the last 30 minutes? Up the audiobook. Many of the characters were unlikeable.